Adventures in Reading

Just read this week’s NYTimes.com Book Update and found three more books that I’d like to read (relevant NYTimes Book Reviews in parentheses)!

• Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America by Steven Waldman (”Religious Intent” by Richard Brookhiser)
• The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson (”Pure Science” by Peter Dizikes)
• “Socialism is Great!” A Worker’s Memoir of the New China by Lijia Zhang (”Party Girl” by Joseph Kahn)

Yay for reading!

I just got back from my local library’s Annual Book Sale and wow, I got 24 books in almost new condition for $1.00 each (except for two hardcovers for $2.00 each). What a deal!

So these are the latest additions to my large personal library:

• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
• The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005 by Barry Lopez (Introduction) and Philip Zaleski (Series Editor)
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
• Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America by Thomas J. Fleming
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
• God In All Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Spiritual Writing by Lucinda Vardey
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis by Mark Lynas
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
• Naked by David Sedaris
• Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces
• Personal History by Katharine Graham
• Prodigal Summer: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
• The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
• The One Thing You Need to Know: … About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success by Marcus Buckingham
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

That’s about $440.00 worth of books for just $26.00! Can’t beat that, even at the local used bookstore!